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Chaos and order in plankton dynamics. Complex behavior of a simple model

Chaos and order in plankton dynamics. Complex behavior of a simple model
Chaos and order in plankton dynamics. Complex behavior of a simple model

The role of the diffusive interaction between fish-populated and fish-free habitats in a patchy environment in plankton pattern formation is studied by means of a minimal reaction-diffusion model of the nutrient-plankton-fish food chain. It is shown that such interaction can give rise to spatio-temporal plankton patterns. The fractal dimension of the patterns is shown dependent on the fish predation rate. The spatially averaged plankton dynamics depending on both fish predation rate and distance between fish-populated habitats can exhibit chaotic and regular behavior. The chaotic plankton dynamics is characteristic of a wide parameter range.

0044-4596
149-158
Medvinsky, Alexander B.
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Tikhonova, Irene A.
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Petrovskii, Sergey V.
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Malchow, Horst
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Venturino, Ezio
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Medvinsky, Alexander B., Tikhonova, Irene A., Petrovskii, Sergey V., Malchow, Horst and Venturino, Ezio (2002) Chaos and order in plankton dynamics. Complex behavior of a simple model. Zhurnal Obshchei Biologii, 63 (2), 149-158.

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The role of the diffusive interaction between fish-populated and fish-free habitats in a patchy environment in plankton pattern formation is studied by means of a minimal reaction-diffusion model of the nutrient-plankton-fish food chain. It is shown that such interaction can give rise to spatio-temporal plankton patterns. The fractal dimension of the patterns is shown dependent on the fish predation rate. The spatially averaged plankton dynamics depending on both fish predation rate and distance between fish-populated habitats can exhibit chaotic and regular behavior. The chaotic plankton dynamics is characteristic of a wide parameter range.

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Published date: March 2002

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Local EPrints ID: 438230
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/438230
ISSN: 0044-4596
PURE UUID: da6c3998-90a1-4131-9dfb-588b5481e499
ORCID for Irene A. Tikhonova: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-2723-0802

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Last modified: 08 Jan 2022 17:05

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Author: Alexander B. Medvinsky
Author: Irene A. Tikhonova ORCID iD
Author: Sergey V. Petrovskii
Author: Horst Malchow
Author: Ezio Venturino

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